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120. Coppack, Fountains Abbey, p. 113; Bond, Monastic Landscapes, p. 189.
121. Bond, Monastic Landscapes, p. 194.
122. Wardrop, Fountains Abbey and its Benefactors, p. 110. This grant may have been secured during the abbacy of William of Newminster (1180-90), who had at one time been a canon of Guisborough.
123. Wardrop, Fountains Abbey and its Benefactors, p. 167, pp. 258-9; the community’s rights here were challenged in 1229, but the agreement permitted them to retain two fisheries here and have rights of access, whilst safeguarding the customary rights of the fishermen of Coatham.
124. Memorials of Fountains III, p. 16 [31].
125. J. Burton, ‘The estates and economy of Rievaulx Abbey’, Cîteaux49 (1998), pp. 29-93, at p. 57.
126. Bond, Monastic Landscapes,p. 74.
127. A History of Nidderdale, ed. B. Jennings (Huddersfield, 1967), pp. 63-4, 66, 77.
128. A History of Lead Mining in the Pennines, ed. A. Raistrick and B. Jennings (London, 1965), pp. 35-36.
129. Michelmore, Fountains Abbey Lease Book, p. lxiv. See pp. 194-196, nos, 203-204.
130. Bond, Monastic Landscapes, p. 347.
131. Wardrop, Fountains Abbey and its Benefactors, p. 110.
132. Jennings, Yorkshire Monasteries, p. 99; A History of Nidderdale, ed. Jennings, p. 65.
133. A History of Lead Mining in the Pennines, ed. Raistrick and Jennings, pp. 60-61; Bond, Monastic Landscapes, p.347.
134. Jennings, Yorkshire Monasteries, p. 99; Memorials of Fountains III, p. 206; A History of Lead Mining in the Pennines, ed. Raistrick and Jennings, pp. 77-78 .
135. Bartholomaeus Anglicus, De Proprietatibus rerum [On the property of things], cited in Medieval Lore: An epitome of the science, geography, animal and plant folk-lore and myth in the Middle Ages, being classified gleanings from the encyclopaedia of Bartholomew Anglicus, On the Property of Things, ed. R. Steele (London, 1893), p. 34.
136. Jennings, Yorkshire Monasteries, pp. 76, 78.
137. Coppack, Fountains Abbey, p. 111.
138. Coppack, Fountains Abbey, pp. 110-111; S. Moorhouse, ‘Monastic estates: their composition and development’, in The Archaeology of Rural Monasteries,ed. R. Gilchrist and H. Mytum, BAR British Ser. 203 (1989), pp. 29-82, at p. 51. For a map of Bradley grange showing the various industrial sites, see Moorhouse, ‘Monastic estates’, p. 36.
139. Jennings, Yorkshire Monasteries, p. 99.
140. Coppack, Fountains Abbey, p. 113.
141. Bond, Monastic Landscapes, p. 330.
142. Clay, ‘Bradley: a grange of Fountains’, p. 100; Coppack, Fountains Abbey, p. 113; Bond, Monastic Landscapes, p. 334.
143. February 1503, Michelmore, Fountains Abbey Lease Book, no 178 (pp. 163-4). This was a confirmation of an earlier grant.
144. Coppack, Fountains Abbey, p. 114; Bond, Monastic Landscapes, p. 340.
145. Bond, Monastic Landscapes, p. 340.
146. E. Dent, ‘The impact of Fountains Abbey on Nidderdale’, BA dissertation, University College Ripon and York, 1995, available on the web at: http://www.nidderdale.org/index.htm.
147. Wardrop, Fountains Abbey and its Benefactors, p. 115; Coppack, Fountains Abbey, p. 113. Doncaster was leased out to laity early on, Wardrop, Fountains Abbey and its Benefactors, p. 113, fn. 215.
148. Coppack, Fountains Abbey, p. 113.
149. Bond, Monastic Landscapes, p. 260.
150. Wardrop, Fountains Abbey and its Benefactors, pp. 113-4.
151. Coppack, Fountains Abbey, p. 113; for details of these mills, see Michelmore, Fountains Abbey Lease Book, no. 100 (pp. 88-89, at p. 89).
152. Memorials of Fountains III, p. 25 (candelabra); pp. 9, 43, 87 (mowing).
153. Memorials of Fountains III, p. 112.
154. Michelmore, Fountains Abbey Lease Book, p. xiii, no. 99 (p. 88).

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